Portland protests shape District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s young tenure: Now what?
His decision not to prosecute most protest-related crimes drew fire from President Trump and praise from reformers. What’s happened since.
Updated on Feb 02, 2021;
Published on Jan 30, 2021
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt on Sat., Jan 15, 2021. Schmidt, 39, campaigned as a reformer and won 77% of the vote. His approach to protest-related arrests has won praise and encountered resistance. “You re not damaging anything, you re not lighting things on fire, then you re not the person we re going to prosecute,” he said. “There is no public safety value to prosecuting that person because a year-and-a-half from now when it actually goes to trial, even if we convicted you, what good did we do? Oregonian staff/Dave Killen Dave Killen
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Biden’s latest executive action is a win for chickens and meatpacking workers
Biden’s reversing Trump’s effort to speed up line speeds at chicken packing plants.
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Amid Joe Biden’s flurry of executive actions in the first few days of his presidency, one in particular stands out for animal welfare and meatpacking worker advocates. Biden withdrew a Trump administration request to raise the maximum speed at which chicken plants can operate from 140 birds per minute to 175 birds per minute.
Updated January 27 Multnomah County number crunchers last week projected a 21% reduction in the amount of money that will be collected by the county s income tax to fund tuition-free preschool. Last fall, the Preschool for All campaign for Ballot Measure 26-214 told voters it had consulted with multiple technical experts to arrive at its projected revenue figures. The money will provide tuition-free preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds funded by a new personal income tax of 1.5 % on joint filers earning more than $200,000 and 3% on joint filers earning more than $400,000. In the fall, the campaign told voters it expected the new tax, the first of its kind in the nation, to raise $133 million in its first year and to climb steadily from there.